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Captivating and suspenseful, Best Kept Secret is the third novel in international bestseller Jeffrey Archer’s outstanding Clifton Chronicles. It sees our hero Harry Clifton and Giles Barrington, brother of Harry’s beloved wife Emma, become entwined in the fate of the Barrington family...

Brought to you by Penguin. THE IRRESISTIBLE ROMANTIC COMEDY FROM THE GLOBAL MULTI-MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR. Discover the joy that awaits when you set yourself free... Sasha is well and truly over it all: work (all-consuming), friendships (on the back burner), sex-life (non-existent)...

In the golden city of Famagusta, Greek and Turkish Cypriots alike enjoy a life of good fortune. Invasion comes without warning, bringing chaos and terror. As forty thousand people flee their homes in panic, Famagusta becomes a ghost town. But not everyone will find it so easy to leave...

When war arrives, it brings secrets and danger – but it also brings love… France, 1939. As war looms, two women make very different choices. Marie-Louise, a headstrong young woman who sees the atrocities for what they are, is recruited into a secret intelligence service that takes her across...

When I was twelve years old God spoke to my father for the first time. God didn't say much. He told my father to be a painter and left it at that . . . ' So begins Niall Williams' magical tale about love and destiny. Nicholas Coughlan and Isabel Gore were made for each other -- but fate doesn't...

The sparkling Christmas audiobook from the Sunday Times bestselling author Heidi Swain! When Anna takes on the role of companion to the owner of Wynthorpe Hall, on the outskirts of Wynbridge, she has no idea that her life is set to change beyond all recognition. A confirmed ‘bah humbug’ when...

Cartes Postales from Greece is an extraordinary new book from Victoria Hislop, the Sunday Times Number One bestselling author of The Island, The Return, The Thread, and The Sunrise. It is fiction in full colour - magical and unique. 'Victoria Hislop writes so vividly about the Med, you can...

Don't miss the extraordinary new novel from Sue Monk Kidd, The Book of Longings - published on 21st April 2020, and available to buy now. Jessie Sullivan has been married half her life, and has become accustomed to her role. But when she returns to the isolated island where she grew up to...

Brought to you by Penguin. Dive into the fourth novel in the gripping Will Trent series, from the Sunday Times bestselling crime and thriller author. Now a major TV Series on Disney+ When the body of a young woman is discovered at the bottom of Lake Grant, a note left under a rock suggests...

Some books are guaranteed to break your heart - and lift you up. Letters to my Daughters is one of those wonderful books. If you loved Between Sisters by Cathy Kelly or Orange Blossom Days by Patricia Scanlan, this novel is for you. Throughout their lives, the three Brady sisters have always...

A Richard and Judy recommendation for the 2012 Summer Book Club, this is a brilliant Gothic novel in the vein of Daphne du Maurier. A chance encounter: When Sarah meets dark, brooding Alex, she grasps his offer of a new life miles away from her own. They've both recently escaped broken...

Maggie O'Farrell's second novel is an intense, unnerving and passionate story of betrayal, loss and love, with all the frisson and psychological intensity of Rebecca. When Lily moves into Marcus's flat and plunges headlong into a relationship, she must contend not merely with the disapproval of...

Akshay Saxena, an out of work editor of a defunct literary magazine in the UK, is told to move to India for a year to help shore up the value of Kalim, an ailing Indian publisher. Akshay finds himself in a job where he has to do the impossible. Angus Lee, the new owner of Thomson Lee Books, wants at least five bestsellers in the coming year, failing which the business would be wound up.

Brought to you by Penguin. A classic girl-meets-boy-meets-devil story from a Danish literary superstar A woman meets a man on a train in Copenhagen and agrees to visit him in London. She has lived many lives and as she sits out a two-week quarantine in his apartment, she begins to tell her story...

Ben Riller is the most successful producer on Broadway, but his newest production is in danger of closing before it opens. In his stressed-out condition, Ben is hearing the voice of his long-dead father, and they're having a running argument about life, love, and other people's money.

Eine zufällige Begegnung, die für immer das Leben zweier Menschen verändern wird. Besonders im modernen New York ist diese Art von Verbindung selten geworden, dennoch passieren diese Begegnungen manchmal wie durch ein Wunder. So auch bei Laura und Maurice. Laura ist eine karriereorientiert Verkaufsleiterin, die nicht viel Zeit für persönliche Belange hat. Als sie eines Tages einem bettelnden Jungen begegnet, lernt sie ein völlig anderes Leben kennen. Mit diesem Kennenlernen beginnt eine Freundschaft, die bis heute anhält.

Рассказы и повести Виктора Пелевина, составившие эту книгу, по праву вошли в золотой фонд современной отечественной литературы. Мало того – они сделали Пелевина самым читаемым современным интеллектуальным писателем.А в аудиоформате открываются ещё и новые грани этой необыкновенной прозы.

Das war sie also nun die Erzählwerkstatt 2014: Großartige ErzählerInnen. Fantastische Geschichten. Erlebtes, Erfundenes, Fröhliches, Trauriges, Gruseliges, Altes, Neues aus dem Norden, Süden, Osten, oder Westen, von Menschen, von Tieren, von Planeten und von allem anderen auch. Circa so, also wie die Menschen auch sind. Und das gibt's jetzt zum Anhören, zum Runterladen und wer's dann auf eine CD brennen möchte - es sollte sich alles auf einer mp3-CD ausgehen.

Noch keine dreißig Jahre alt, wird Alex mit ihrem Pocket Beagle in L.A. überfahren. Überraschend findet sie sich im Siebten Himmel wieder...

Martin Gilmour ist ein Einzelgänger. Aufgewachsen in trostlosen Verhältnissen, seinen Vater hat er nie kennengelernt. Seine Mutter hasst er bis zum heutigen Tag und meidet den Kontakt mit ihr, wo es nur geht. Es gibt nur einen Menschen, der ihm wirklich etwas bedeutet: Ben. "Mein bester Freund Ben", sagt Martin. Wenn er es sich auch nicht eingesteht, so dreht sich in seinem Leben doch alles darum, Ben zu gefallen und ähnlich zu sein.